SPINE

We have developed our curriculum to ensure that pupils have access to wider opportunities and a full range of learning experiences to allow them to develop into fully rounded and successful individuals who can contribute fully to society and the wider world around them. We want all our pupils to explore and engage with cultural capital opportunities that will open their eyes to the world at large.
The document is divided into 8 areas

Reading texts (books we want the children to have read by the end of each year group)
Writing vocabulary
Mathematics vocabulary
Science vocabulary
Outdoor learning opportunities / activities in the school grounds / Gardening
Health / wellbeing / sports activities
Use of the local area / school visits / In-school experiences
Songs / rhymes / poems / artwork
Cultural capital (activities like watching plays, musicals etc)
Family engagement activities

The areas chosen are not designed to replace any part of our curriculum but are about giving the children wonderful and wider experiences. Click on the buttons below to see our SPINE activities for each year group.

Nursery

Reading texts	Writing vocabulary	Mathematics vocabulary	Science vocabulary	Outdoor learning / use of grounds / DT planting
We’re going on a Bear Hunt Traditional tales Goldilocks Three billy goats gruff The 3 little pigs Jack and the beanstalk We’re going on a bear hunt Shark in the park The Gruffalo Author focus Nick Sharratt	Sounds Word Sentence Picture Draw Write Pencil Pencil grip	Numbers to 20 Count Order How many…? More than Less than The same Heavy/Light Tall/Short Big/Small Next to, on top of, under, beside	What can you see? What can you hear? What can you smell? Why? Why did that happen?	Two weeks wild - a different nature/outdoor based activity to do each day. Building a sandcastle Creating a nature table Keeping a vegetable patch
Health / Wellbeing / Sports	Use of local environment / Visits / In school experiences	Songs / Rhymes / Poems / Art Use Google	Cultural capital	Family engagement activities
Brushing teeth Washing hands How to hold a pencil correctly Put on own coat (arms in) Flushing the toilet Turning the taps off Putting our shoes and socks on Putting on wellies Saying when we need the toilet	Visit the library Fire engine experience Visit the park PCSO visit	Learn traditional nursery rhymes - Incy wincy spider - Ten in the bed - Doctor Foster - Humpty Dumpty -Grand old Duke of York -Wind your bobbing up - Twinkle, Twinkle little star Artist/Illustrator Eric Carle	BBC Proms - Cbeebies The Piano Guys Classical music – Mozart, Vivaldi Play the card game – picture card snap.	Nativity Summer Sports Day

Reception

Reading texts	Writing vocabulary	Mathematics vocabulary	Science vocabulary	Outdoor learning / use of grounds / DT planting
We’re going on a Bear Hunt Traditional tales Goldilocks Hansel and Gretel Gingerbread man The 3 little pigs Little Red Riding Hood Kipper – Mick Inkpen The bad tempered ladybird – Eric Carle Rosie’s Walk – Pat Hutchins Cuddly Dudley – Jez Alborough	Digraph trigraph	Plus Add Altogether Total Left Pair Double More/less Equals/makes Basic shape names Pattern Difference	Floating and sinking Same Different Change What do you think will happen….?	Planting in outdoor beds (fruits and vegetables) Den building in outdoor learning area NT Make a mud pie NT
Health / Wellbeing / Sports	Use of local environment / Visits / In school experiences	Songs / Rhymes / Poems / Art Use Google	Cultural capital	Family engagement activities
Brushing teeth Washing hands How to hold a pencil correctly Put on own coat (arms in) Flushing the toilet Use the trim trail	Visit to Church Visit to Library Town walk Visit a farm	Learn traditional nursery rhymes - Hot cross Buns - Mary Mary quite contrary - Old mother hubbard - Pat a cake - Twinkle Twinkle little star Silly songs Okki Tokki Unga Artist Wassily Kadinsky – Abstract Song of the Train – David McCord	Panto (performed in school) (PUPPET SHOW INSTEAD) Real life storytellers How music can be used – Memory recall Flute concerto in D: Allegro Vilvado Mozart Symphony No.35 3rd Mvt (strings) Sweet harmony (original mix) Play the card game –Snap and Happy families	Nativity Summer Sports Day

Year 1

Reading texts	Writing vocabulary	Mathematical vocabulary	Science vocabulary	Outdoor learning / use of grounds / DT planting
Stick man – Julie Donaldson Not Now Bernard – David McKee Click Clack Moo Cows that type George and the Dragon Dogger Handa’s Surprise The Gruffalo	Synonyms for went Topic words to be learnt	Ones, tens, digit, ‘teens’ number Numbers to 20 Exchange Equal to More than, less than, most,least Subtract, half/ halve Number sentence Multiples number bonds Group share Half Quarter Long, short, tall, high, low, wide, narrow, thick, thin heavier / heaviest lighter / lightest Simple 3D shapes	Weather words – sunny, raining, windy, snowing, cloudy, cold, warm, hot.	Make a mud sculpture Spend a day in the woods
Health / Wellbeing / Sports	Use of local environment / Visits / experiences	Songs / Rhymes / Poems / Art work- Use Google	Cultural capital	Family engagement activity
Learn to do up shoe laces Do own zip up How to sit on a chair properly Hopscotch Catch a large ball with both hands	Make a trail with sticks NT Go on a scavenger hunt Adopt a local footpath to visit each big term	Learn traditional nursery rhymes A-tisket A-tasket Bobby Shaftoe’s gone to sea Ding Dong Bell Jack Be Nimble Sing a song of sixpence Artist Vincent Van Gogh – Post impressionism Songs From Okki Tokki Unga	Go to museum/place of Heritage Music with a story Peter and the Wolf (Sergei Prokofiev) Swan Lake – The Kirov ballet (Tchaikovsky) David Arkenstone – Papillon Day’ (On wings of a butterfly) Play the card game – Pairs	Sports day KS1 KS1 production

Year 2

Reading texts	Writing vocabulary	Mathematical vocabulary	Science vocabulary	Outdoor learning / use of grounds / DT planting
The legend of Spud Murphy The Day the Crayons quit The Giraffe and the Pelly and me The tear thief	Topic words to be learnt	Place value < > and = Numbers to 100 Multiplication Division Odd and even numbers Fractions such as ½, 1/3, ¼, 2/4 and ¾ Standard units such as m, cm, g, kg, l, ml and °C Pounds (£ )and pence (p) Quarter past/to the hour Minutes, hours, days, weeks, Seasons and months Sides, symmetry, edges, vertices and faces Rotation (clockwise and anti-clockwise) Pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and tables	Know the names of British wild animals.	Build a hide. Make a daisy chain Make bird feeders to use in the KS1 wooded area
Health / Wellbeing / Sports	Use of local environment / Visits / experiences	Songs / Rhymes / Poems / Art work - Use Google	Cultural capital	Family engagement activity
Learn how to use a knife and fork Learn how to use a skipping rope Balance on one leg	Discover what lives in a pond NT Jump over the waves NT Build a sandcastle Find a crab NT Visit the Market House	Poems Daddy fell into the pond Ning Nang Nong The Small Ghostie The Months Artist Henri Matisse – Impressionism Songs I am the Music Man Goldilocks and the three bears	Watch a pantomime Children’s theatre (Spalding) Music from around the World Korean – Yiruma (orchestra) Kiss the rain Italian – Einaudi Ludovico, i giorni (Sarah Hasnip can play this on piano) Spanish Guitarist (SH) Play the card game –Pontoon	Sports day KS1 KS1 production

Year 3

Reading texts	Writing vocabulary	Mathematical vocabulary	Science vocabulary	Outdoor learning / use of grounds / DT planting
Harry the poisonous centipede Diary of a killer cat Winnie the Pooh The Owl who was afraid of the dark The true story of the 3 little pigs	Topic words to be learnt	3-digit numbers Numbers to 1000 Inverse operation Tenths Denominators numerators Unit and non-unit fraction7 Equivalent fractions Volume/capacity Perimeter O’clock, am/pm, morning, afternoon, noon, midnight Leap year Angles, right angles Horizontal, vertical, perpendicular, parallel	To know the names of the wild flowers and trees.	Grow plants to cook. Fly a kite NT Camping out with a caveman (not all night)
Health / Wellbeing / Sports	Use of local environment / Visits / experiences	Songs / Rhymes / Poems / Art work - Use Google	Cultural capital	Family engagement activity
Keep a football off the ground for more than 3 kicks Tie shoe laces French skipping	Visit graveyard to look at erosion of rocks. Fill a matchbox with natural objects.	Learn a round London’s Burning Three blind mice Alouette Artist Andy Warhol – Popart Poems Colonel Fazackerley -Butterworth Toast The Door Bed in Summer	Watch CBBC midsummer’s night dream (iPlayer) See an orchestra Different music genres Jazz Blues Country Music Play the card game –Rummy	Sports day LKS2 LKS2 production

Year 4

Reading texts	Writing vocabulary	Mathematical vocabulary	Science vocabulary	Outdoor learning / use of grounds / DT planting
Operation Gadgetman The twits War Game The Hodgeheg George’s Marvellous medicine The Legend of Captain’s crow teeth Mr Gum series	Topic words to be learnt	Four-digit numbers Negative / positive numbers Round (to the nearest) Roman numerals to 100 Factor pairs Commutativity Integer Hundredths Decimals, decimal place Area Analogue and digital 12- and 24- hour clocks. Acute and obtuse angles Co-ordinates, quadrant, translation Discrete and continuous data	Names of star constellations (camping) The plough, orion, Ursa major and Ursa minor.	Plant it, eat it, grow it NT Go star gazing NT Go on a nature walk at trail NT Camping overnight
Health / Wellbeing / Sports	Use of local environment / Visits / experiences	Songs / Rhymes / Poems / Art work - Use Google	Cultural capital	Family engagement activity
Able to catch a ball from a partner’s throw more than 10 times in a row Hit a target with a tennis ball with an underarm throw	Catch a falling leaf NT Find your way with a compass NT Burghley House – Sculpture garden	Skipping songs Miss Lucy had a baby Teddy bear, teddy bear 5 little monkeys Clapping songs A sailor went to sea, sea, sea Atchi Katchi Leberachi Double this, double that Artist Andy Goldsworthy – sculptor Poems The language of cat Jim Gran – can you rap?	Watch a digital production (Henry V by 8 and 10 yr olds) (Digital theatre plus) Go to Lincoln castle/The Collection Different genres of music Acappella – use of voice Folk music – Soul – Play the card game – Chinese patience, Sevens	Sports day LKS2 production

Year 5

Reading texts	Writing vocabulary	Mathematical vocabulary	Science vocabulary	Outdoor learning / use of grounds / DT planting
The Iron Man Fairy Tales- Terry Jones The Firework maker’s daughter Boy in the tower Artemis Fowl Charlotte’s web Clockwork Emil and the detectives The ultimate alphabet Beetle boy	Topic words to be learnt	Numbers to one million Roman numerals to 1000 Prime numbers, prime factors and composite (non-prime) numbers Square numbers (2) and cube (3)numbers Mixed numbers and improper fractions Thousandths percent (%) Degrees reflex angles Regular and irregular polygons Reflection	To know the names of the clouds. Cirrus, cumulus, stratus, cumulonimbus, nimbostratus.	UKS2 production Sports day Make a home for a wild animal NT Make and light a campfire Outdoor cookery
Health / Wellbeing / Sports	Use of local environment / Visits / experiences	Songs / Rhymes / Poems / Art work - Use Google	Cultural capital	Family engagement activity
Play Jacks Play marbles Double dutch skipping	Make and burn an Anglo-Saxon ship Hunt for bugs NT Hilltop outdoor adventure Walk to Cinder Ash Park Visit the Baptist Church	Artist David Hockney – Pop art/Cubism Poems A letter was sent but no-one was there Tyger! Tyger! Sonnet 18 The tin can band Double Dutch skipping songs Jack be nimble My mother told me	Watch a digital play (Digital Theatre Plus) Progression of reggae Ska Rocksteady Reggae Play the card game –Black Jack	Burning the Anglo-Saxon ship Hold a scary beast NT

Year 6

Reading texts	Writing vocabulary	Mathematical vocabulary	Science vocabulary	Outdoor learning / use of grounds / DT planting
The railway children Carrie’s war Granny The hobbit The viewer The other side of truth Tell me no lies The lion the witch and the wardrobe Silverfin Oranges in no man’s land Machine gunners Airman Cabinet of curiosities	Topic words to be learnt	Numbers to ten million Intervals Remainders Common factors Common multiples Simplify fractions Percentages Algebra(ic) Formulae Variables Linear number sequences Nets Radius, diameter, circumference Pie charts, line graphs Mean average	To know the names of pond life (plants and animals).	Camping out with a scout leader Climb a tree Play hide and seek in the secret garden
Health / Wellbeing / Sports	Use of local environment / Visits / experiences	Songs / Rhymes / Poems / Art work - Use Google	Cultural capital	Family engagement activity
Cat’s cradle Able to juggle two balls Able to hit a target with an overarm throw Bikeability	Bring up a butterfly Carve a pumpkin Visit the Bull Lane Park	Artist Pablo Picasso – Cubism Poems In Flanders Field Night Mail If Folk Songs Little Brown Jug Wild rover	Watch a live performance of a play. Visit the Natural History/Science museum Create a puppet show for Reception or Year One. Impact of new music on society Jazz Rock n roll Play the card game – Beggar my neighbour	UKS2 production Sports day End of year assembly

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